Latin Immersion Classes, Events, and Tutoring

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Latin Classes

Explore our group Zoom class options. Click on one to learn more about it.

Group classes are an excellent way to sharpen your knowledge of both Latin grammar and vocabulary. Each course is done live with groups of ten students via Zoom. The schedules for the courses vary. You can click on a course to see its schedule.

Classes are run in Latin and are designed to guide you closer to fluency.

Not sure what level you are? Click on a class and read the description. Each description also has a linked Youtube video to give you an idea of how advanced the class will be.

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For those who have little to no experience with Latin but are looking for a good foundation to get them started. Though we will spend time speaking in Latin during these class, significant time will also be devoted to explaining grammatical basics.

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For those that have studied some of the basics and are looking to take their knowledge to the next level with more immersion.

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For those that feel they have a pretty good grasp of most of the fundamentals and a fair bit of vocabulary to work with but need more practice speaking and listening to Latin.

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For students with all of the basics and some even more advanced concepts under their belt, looking to continue to build their proficiency towards fluency.

Tutoring

If you are looking for more personalized instruction in Latin, look no further.

1-on-1 Latin tutoring gets you a personalized study plan for reaching your individual goals and improving your Latin.

We offer tutoring at discounted rates for bundles of lessons.

Maybe you are looking for help with a specific reading passage or you just want a little more direction in general on what to study and how. 1-on-1 tutoring is an excellent resource for accelerating your learning.

Events

I run regular free Spoken Latin Zoom classes online open to all. Sign up for our newsletter to receive updates about when and how you can join these sessions.

FREE ZOOM CLASSES

If you are interested in getting a feel for how group classes might go, feel free to hop on one of our regularly-occurring free Zoom meetings where we discus a chapter of Famila Romana. Sign up for our newsletters for updates about when these sessions happen!

Satisfied Customers

"After a challenging first semester and discouraged child taking Latin, I reached out and hired Ethan. Needless to say he is amazing! A truly gifted person and very helpful!"

"My son met with Ethan for his first Latin lesson and found the time spent with him very helpful. Ethan was outgoing and patient, and helped my son work through a quiz review worksheet. Ethan gave my son good feedback on what he still needs practice with. Immediately after the lesson my son asked to schedule another lesson with Ethan."

"Ethan knew when to ask me specific questions to get me to use certain parts of speech that I was struggling with. Very helpful."

Your Instructor

Who I Am

My name is Ethan Floyd (Rogerius). I have studied Latin for over a decade and have been an educator for the last five years. Four of those years were spent teaching Latin to middle and high-school students at a Texas public school. I have tutored students of all ages in Latin from middle school, to university, to adult learners.

I am Catholic, and I earned a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from Wyoming Catholic College where I took two years of immersive Latin courses. Additionally, I attended two week-long Latin immersion courses in the wilderness, and composed my bachelor’s thesis on St. Bonaventure in Latin.

Desiderius Erasmus is a favorite author of mine, and I have republished a couple of his books on our website, including de Ratione Studii, in essence, a Latin curriculum for the Renaissance.

How I Teach

The exact way that I lead a class is dependent upon whom I am tutoring, but typically I like to keep the sessions as immersive as possible, that is by speaking as much good clear Latin as possible in order to provide participants with frequent repetitions of foundational grammar and vocabulary. Though I consider the immersive aspect of my classes very important in terms of acquiring a working knowledge of the language, exposition of the grammar is also equally necessary, and so more or less time is devoted to explaining grammar depending on what kind of class I am teaching and the needs of the students.

I have taught immersion Latin classes for four years, and have gotten quite good at keeping the instruction in Latin, but sometimes breaking the barrier is helpful and maybe even necessary in order to expedite progress.

The “restored” pronunciation is much more familiar to me these days, but I am acquainted with the Ecclesiastical/Italian pronuncation as well. Typically, unless my students have a preference, I will use the restored pronunciation in my lessons in an effort to express the language as it was used when it was producing its most influential literature.

When possible, I like to use the Lingua Latina per se Illustrata texts as a vehicle for instruction, but I am aware that not everyone owns this book, nor is it necessary to own it for lessons. I will nevertheless highly recommend it for those of you who are interested in learning Latin well.

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